Today we announced Amazon GameOn, a cross-platform, competitive gaming service for developers. GameOn is a set of flexible APIs that allow you to easily build cross-platform competitions into your games, allowing your players to compete for real-world prizes fulfilled by Amazon.

Whether it’s scary music leading up to an intense boss battle, a mimicable grunt, or a characterizing catch phrase, sound effects are an enriching and sometimes crucial add-on to any interactive experience.

Dialog management is a great way to collect the set of required slots that your intent needs to perform a task for your customers, since it greatly reduces the necessary coding required to reprompt for missing slot values. Learn how about how you can leverage the dialog management state machine.

We’re thrilled to announce the Alexa Skills Challenge: Life Hacks with Devpost, an opportunity for you to publish a stellar Alexa skill that customers will love for a chance to win your share of cash and prizes up to $250,000.

There are more freely available game assets than ever, but sometimes you want (or need) something custom. Not to worry! It's quite easy to get decent looking art using free software and minimal art skills.

Now, after much deliberation, we are excited to announce the winners of the Alexa and Arduino Smart Home Challenge. Each winner will receive prizes designed to help them kick-start their prototype device into production.